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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 29

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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I

Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

Strong, Men, Blood

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Shadow, Looks, Contemplating

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

Feet, Adorable, Soul

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.872, Modern Library

It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

Sleep, Bed, Supper

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Wisdom, Stars, Night

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

Friendship, Running, Wine

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

Angel, Men, Evil

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

A wedding is not house-keeping.

Wedding, House

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

Paris, Study, Born

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.154, My Ebook Publishing House

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

Clothes, Egotism

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

Garden, Names, Two

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

Men, Heaven, Earth

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

Men, Ideas, Gnats

Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Wisdom, Philosopher, Les Miserable

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2609, Delphi Classics

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

War, Humanity, Outrage

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

Way, Morrow, One Way

Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

Flow, Three, Iliad

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12468, Delphi Classics

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

Song, Peace

There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

Dream, Spring, Destiny

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.464, Wordsworth Editions

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Misery, Concern, Repeats

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2093, BookCaps Study Guides

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

Needs, Praying

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

Wisdom, Thinking, Labour

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.453, Modern Library

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Gossip, Doe, Affair

It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

War, Government, Europe

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Thinking, Worry, Soul

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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